1730s in South Africa

	1730s in South Africa
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List of years in South Africa

The following lists events that happened during the 1730s in South Africa . Jan de la Fontaine continues as Governor of the Cape Colony. ^[1]

Events

1730

• The Dutch East India Company imports slaves from Mozambique and Zanzibar ^[2]
• The first trekboers reach the George area, trek inland into Langkloof
• 8 March - Jan de la Fontaine becomes Governor of the Cape Colony
• 8 April - The first Jewish congregation consecrates their synagogue
• Phalo becomes ruler of the AmaXhosa, but rivalry between his sons ended up causing political rifts.
• A Dutch commando kills six Khoi-San, captures a woman and three children. This is the first recorded instance of indigenous women and children taken as war captives for forced labor.
• The VOC abandons Delagoa Bay after its failed occupation, and 103 soldiers return to the Cape Colony.
• The French language disappears from the Huguenot immigrants within two generations, an unprecedented event in French emigration history. ^[3]
• The Little Karoo valley is reached by the Dutch South Africans. ^[4]
• The economic fortunes and profits of the VOC start to decline. ^[5] Over the next 50 years, 4 million guilders is drawn from the Asia capital stock, an liquid capital in Europe decreases by 20 million guilders during the same period. ^[6]

1732

• The Trek Boers, the first Dutch farmers, settled along the Olifants River

1733

• Matthias Lotter, master Gold and Silver Smith arrives at the Cape.

1734

• Jan de la Fontaine, Governor of the Cape, ^[7] claims Mossel Bay for the Dutch East India Company and the Great Brak River is proclaimed the eastern boundary of Cape
• The VOC establishes an administrative post at Rietvlei. ^[8]
• VOC outposts are established at Riviersonderend and St Helena Bay. ^{[9] [10]}
• The Great Brak River is declared the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony.
• Jan de la Fontaine colonizes Mossel Bay by erecting a stone beacon with the VOC and Dutch Republic coats of arms. ^{[11] [12] [13]}
• Jan Smiesing, a former slave and schoolteacher, dies. ^{[14] [15] [16]}

1736

• 14 November Adriaan van Kervel is appointed Governor of the Cape
• Phalo becomes King of the Xhosa Nation

1737

• 21 May - Nine ships are wrecked in a gale in Table Bay with a loss of 208 lives
• 9 July - George Schmidt, the first Protestant missionary (Moravian Brethren) in southern Africa, arrives at the Cape
• 20 September - Daniël van den Henghel is appointed acting Governor of the Cape
• 18 December - The first Moravian mission station in South Africa is established in Genadendal near present-day Caledon by George Schmidt, "The Apostle of the Hottentots"

1739

• 1 March - Etienne Barbier's insurrection at Paarl
• 1 April Hendrik Swellengrebel becomes the first South African-born governor when he is appointed Governor of the Cape

Deaths

• 1733 - Willem Adriaan van der Stel, Governor of the Cape, dies
• 1737 - Adriaan van Kervel, Governor of the Cape, dies

References

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2. "General South African History Timeline: 1700s | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
3. "The Huguenots in South Africa". museeprotestant.org. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
4. admin (2014-01-11). "The Dutch in South Africa, 1652-1795 and 1802-1806". Colonial Voyage. Retrieved 2025-03-06.
5. De Vries & Van der Woude 1997, pp. 449–455.
6. Gaastra, Femme (2003), The Dutch East India Company: Expansion and Decline (Zutphen: Walberg Pers).
7. "Intro (African) to the Resolutions of Cape of Good Hope / VOC-bevelvoerders aan die Kaap die Goeie Hoop". 2005-03-24. Archived from the original on 24 March 2005. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
8. "General South African History Timeline: 1700s | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
9. Sleigh, Dan (2004). Die buiteposte: VOC-buiteposte onder Kaapse bestuur 1652-1795 (1. uitgawe; 3. druk ed.). Pretoria: Protea Boekhuis. ISBN   978-1-86919-085-9.
10. "Taking a look into Mossel Bay's history". Mossel Bay Advertiser. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
11. "Jan de la Fontaine becomes Governor at the Cape | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
12. Potgieter, D.J. et al. (eds) (1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU, v. 3, p. 625.|Wallis, F. (2000). Nuusdagboek: feite en fratse oor 1000 jaar, Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.
13. admin (2014-01-11). "The Dutch in South Africa, 1652-1795 and 1802-1806". Colonial Voyage. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
14. "Jan Smiesing | South African History Online". www.sahistory.org.za. Retrieved 2025-03-08.
15. Shell and Dick, ‘Jan Smiesing, Slave Lodge schoolmaster and healer, 1697 – 1734’, p.148
16. Dick, The hidden history of South Africa's book and reading cultures, p. 17.

Bibliography

See Years in South Africa for further sources.